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Rosa Luxemburg, letter from prison, 1919
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What am I reading? For the most part, natural science: geography of
plants and animals. Increasingly systematic forestry, gardening and
agriculture are step by step destroying all natural and breeding places:
hollow trees, fallow land, thickets of shrubs, withered leaves on the
garden grounds. It pained me so when I read that. Not because of the song
they sing for people, but rather it was the picture of the silent,
irresistible extinction of these defenseless little creatures which hurt
me to the point that I had to cry. It reminded me of a Russian book which
I read while still in Zurich, a book by Professor Sieber about the ravages
of the redskins in North America. In exactly the same way, step by step,
they have been pushed from their land by civilized men and abandoned to
perish silently and cruelly. Rosa Luxemburg, letter from prison, 1919 |
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